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The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
A Mistake ut an Auction.

They have new and elegant house and
they are still going to auctions. They keep
their eyes open all the time and they examine
every piece of bric-a-brac they come across.
They are busy getting bargains to add to the
beauty of their establishment, and when they
don't see anything fitted for the dining.room
they look out for something to furnish the
backyard with. They tell you the breakfast
room is in redwood and the staircases finishe
In cedar and the bannisters maple and the
kitchen floor is brick, all in the same breath.
Well, he saw lovely dinner set at an auction
he tumbled into few days ago. He thought
to himself. "Tll get that, and the wife will be
delighted" There was crowd, and when
the set was put up he bid for it. 1t went up
and up and up, until it got to $40. Then
only he and another bidder were in the field.
They had 1t lively until 1t got up to $50,
when his rival weakened and the auctioneer
called OUT
"No more, ma'ami Going, going, gone to
Mr.. johnson at $50.
Then the other bidder rose suddenly, took
look. screamed:
"My husbandl" and tainted.
They arrange before they 20 In the morn
ing now not to hunt in the same part OF town.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
The Compass Plant,

Long before men learned to poise piece
OF magnetized iron on pivot to indicate the
north, there were natural cOmpasses, grow
ing on the American prairies, and they still
flourish In large numbers as reliable guide
to travellers across the American desert. They
are a peculiar species of plant, called the
compass plant, the pilot weed, or the polar
plant, and have been known for generations
TO the Western hunter, although the scientific
world has known them but short time. The
edges of its leaves are said to be always
pointed due north and south. An authority
states: Repeated observations upon the
prairles, with measurements by the compass
of the directions assumed by hundreds of
leaves, especially of the radical ones, have
shown that as to prevalent position the popu-
lar belief has a certain foundation In the
fact"
Captain Mayne Reid mentions 1t In one of
his books as follows: 1--WE had guide TO
our direction unerring as the magnetic needle
We were traversng the region of the polar
plant, The planes of whose leaves at almost
every step pointed out our meridian. 1t grew
upon our track, and was crushed under the
hoofs of our horses as we rode onward" The
traveller Burton also refers to il: whilst in
the damper ground appeared the polar plant,
that prairie compass the plane of whose
leaf ever turns toward the magnetic meri-
dian" Another writer says: Fortunately
none goes to the prairies for the first time
without being shown, In case of mishaps, the
groups of compass-weed which abound all
over the plains, and the broad fiat leaves of
which point due north and south with an ac-
curacy as unvarying as that of the magnetic
needle itself.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
VOL. XXXII---NO. 80.
VARIETIES.

AN oyster Lends placid life until It gets
into stew.
WHAT'S the proper age for parson? The
parsonage, of course.
Every bird pleases us with Its lay-es-
pecally the hen.
When does rain become too familiar to
lidyE When it begins to patter on the back.
Sell possession In a young woman Is we'll
enough for while but she shouldn't keep it
up too long.
Milton was asked II he intended TO in
struct his daughters in the different languages
Ito which he replied, mo sir, one Is sufficient
for woman.
-Jessie-"Oh, by the way, uncle, how's
cousin John getting along here in N. W"
He came down to the city 10 make his way
In the world by his wits you know"
Uuncle George-"Yes. Well, the last knew
of him he had busted up for want capital"
81 have just found out why lightning
never strikes twice in the same place." said
Farmer Furrow to the Deacon, as they stood
under tree during thunderstorm "Why
is it?" said the Deacon. Because, sir, the
same place is never there after the lightning
once hits it,"
-"Oh, my friends, there are some specta-
Giles that person never forgets !" said
lecturer, after giving graphic description of
terrible accident that he had witnessed
"Fd like TO know where they sell EN-" re-
marked an old lady in the audience, who is
always mslaying her glasses.
"A negro was suspected Of surreptitiously
meddling with neighbours fruit, and being
caught in garden by moonlight, uonplussed
bis detectors by raising bis eyes, clasping his
hands and piously exclaiming; "Good heav-
ems dis yea darkey can't go nowhere to
pray any more without bein' 'sturbed"
She TO her partner after lively ladies'
chain)-"Wuz dat you, Misto Tolliver, what
squeeze my han in ladies to de right ?" Part
ner-"Idunno; did you squeeze back ?"
She-"The ideal why Nv cose not" Part
ner-"Den you warn't de one; cos de one
whar squeeze her han she done squoze
back"
Last summer, for five whole days, It did
nothing but rain, rain, rain, until everybody
IN the house was tired OF 1t, and cross as cross
could be. ~ never saw such dreadful wea-
ther," grumbled Berties Aunt Bertha Next
morning, however, the sun shone. BERTHE
ran to the window. 20 Aunt Bertha n he
cried, isn't you glad? The weather has all
gone away"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
Signs Of Wind.

Frank Dominick Naverette in the seven.
tenth century discovered certain iniallible
signs ofwinds. One never failing token twas
the running and fluttering about OF little in
sects aboard the ship, and the more restless
they are the higher the wind, and by obsery-
Ing what place they come from mariners
shall know If II will be fair" Another sign,
according to his reverence, is when pigs begin
to run and tumble about ship In calm.
Bumgarten, In his travels" says he was with
apilot who. by putting his finger In bis mouth
and then holding 1t up, "prognostlcated to us
that we should have wind very speedily,
which, indeed, proved accordingly" Ali
that the modern sailor can do by wetting his
finger and lifting 1t is to feel IL there Is any
movement in the air. The digit has long
ceased to be sibyl. Formerly the Brittany
fisherman raised the wind at will by procur.
ing the dust swept out of certain church
and blowing 1t in the direction from which
they had desired the breeze to come. Sar-
dinian sailors also possessed the same useful
art. To procure fair wind they had moth
Ing to do but TO sweep chapel after mass
and blow the dust Of 1t after departing ships
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
Less Food Needed In Summer.

Growth and waste and repair go on in o
nearly uniform way the whole year through,
but the amount OF food necessary for these
operations or purposes is surprisingly small,
the generation of bodily heat requires more
variable quantity Of food. In winter, with
the temperature of the external air at zero,
the temperature of the blood In healthy per-
sons is 98.3 degrees and when the heat of
summer drives the mercury ofthe thermome.
ter near TO or above that mark, the blood
still registers 983 degrees. The marvellous
mechanism by which this uniform blood tenn
perature is maintained at all seasons it is not
necessary TO consider, but it must be evident
to every one that the force needed to raise
the temperature of the whole body to nearly
100 degrees in winter is no longer needed in
summer. The total amount of food needed
for repair, for growth, and for heating, ply
siology teaches us, is much less than Is gen.
orally imagined, and 1t impresses US with the
truth ofthe great surgeon, Abernetby's say
ing, that "one-iourih of what we eat keeps
us, the other three fourths we keep at the
peril of our lives" In winter we burn up
the surplus food with q limited amount of
extra exeriion. In summer we get rid of it
literally at some extra risk to health and, of
course, 10 life. We cannot burn up. Our
vital furnaces are banked, and we worry the
most important working organs with the ex-
ira exertion of removing what had better
never have been taken into the stomach.
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Ingenuity.

Talking about ingenuity" said drummer,
81 want TO tell you what saw last winter
out West was on train that was showed
In for three days. The company sent us
food but they didn't sent any cigars the train
boys stock was exhausted the first day. In
the express car we found and confiscated
box of smoking tobacco but there wasn't
pipe on the train. Among the passengers was
a Yankee who was Just dying for
smoke. He got out in the snow and looked
around for weed, or something ofthat sort,
which he might use in, making pipe, but
couldn't find thing. "I'm going to have
pipe, anyhow" he said So he took lead
pencil, opened the wood, took the lead, and
placing the two strips together again, wound
the stem tightly with tin foil which came out
OF the package of smoking tobacco, making
them tight. Then he took an apple, hollow
cd bowl out of 1t, stuck his pencil stem
into 1t. and had one Of the incest pipes you
ever saw.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
"a Daniel Come to Judgment"

A man had met girl in lonely place in
Lincoln Park last Sunday and forcibly kissed
her. She was terribly indignant, and had
him arrested. She gave an account on the
witness stand of how he gazed at her intent.
ly, and then, suddenly throwing his arms
around her, imprinted kiss upon her lips.
The prisoner insisted upon jury trial, but
elected to make no defense, and the jury was
expected to promptly convict him Of assault.
They returned to the court room.
"The ju-ju-ry w-w-would like to ask the
young lady two questions" the foreman said.
The judge consented, and she went to the
stand.
"D.d-did you wear the j,jjersey you've
g-g-got on now and that French bustle?"
Eyes, sir" was the demure reply.
And w-w-was your hair BIB banged like
that ~
"Yes, SIR"
"Then, your Honor, we acquit the PIP ris-
oner on the ground of unconditional insani-
ty."-CaH Pretzel
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
A Clock OF skeletons.

We are told of a strange clock that is said
to have belonged to Hindoo prince. A
large gong was hung on poles near the dial,
and all about upon the ground lay pile of
artificial human heads, ribs, lege, and arms.
The whole number Of bones In the pile
was equal to the number of bones in twelve
perfect bodies, but the pile appeared to have
been thrown together In the greatest confu-
sion. When the hands Of the clock indicated
the hour of out from the pile crawled first
the number of parts needed to form the
frame of one man, part coming to part with
quick click, and, when completed, The figure
sprang up, seized mallet, and, walking up
to the gong, struck one blow. This done, he
turned to the pile and fell to pieces again.
When o'clock came two arose and did like
wise; and at the hours of noon and midnight
the entire heap sprang up, and, marching to
the gong, struck one after another his blow,
making twelve in oil, then returning fell TO
pieces as before.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05

AN UNEQUIvoCAL DECLARATION OF SOUND
PRINCIPLES.
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A Sympathetie Horse,

A number of horses are kept together at
Independence. A few days ago load Of alfalfa
hay was bought and put In the yard near the
stable; one horse was loose in the yard, the
being left open Alter eating ss few 5 .se Of fI tSe
alfalfa, of which he Is very fond, the loose
horse appeared to remember that his compan-
ions were debarred from the feast. He took
large mouthfuls of the alfalfa carried 1t into
thestable,an placed it before the other horses
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05
Rnetica1.
Old Saws In Rhyme.


Actions speak louder than words ever do;
You can't eat your cake and hold on to Il. too.
When the cat is away then the little mice play;
Where there is will there is always q way.
Ones deep 10 the mud as the other in mire;
Don't jump from the frying-pan into the fire.
There's no use In crying DER milk that 10 split
No accuser Is needed by conscience of guilt.
There must be some fire wherever is smoke:
The pitcher goes of to the welrtin it's broke.
by rogues falling out honest men get their due
whoever 1t fits, he must put on the shoe.
All work and no play will make Jack a dull boy ;
A thing OF much beauty is ever JOY.
A half loaf is better than no bread at all;
And pride always goeth before sad fall.
Fast bind and fast find ; have two strings to your
Contentment is better than riches. we know.
The devil finds work for hands idle to do;
A miss Is as good as mile is to you.
You speak of the devii-he's sure to appear;
You can't make silk purse from out sow's ear.
A man by bis company is always known;
who lives In glass houses should not throw O
stone.
When t the blind leads the blind both will fall in
It's better born lucky than being born rich.
Little pitchers have big ears; burnt children
dread the fire;
Though speaking the truth no one credits liar.
Speech may be silver but silence is gold;
There's never fool like the fool who is old.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-08-05

"A Maine political speaker mentioned
somebody as Shylock, and an auditor asked
who shylock was. If you don't know, the
orator scornfully replied, you'd better 60
home and read your Bible.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11

still unmarried, and receiving a reply in
the negative. he befooled the simple parents into
believing that he had son who was seeking q
wife. and ultimately he induced them to engage
Peachblossom to him in marriage. The mar
rage cards were duly interchanged but the
crafty Chao had chosen the most unlucky day
he could select for the wedding, the day when
the Golden Pheasant was in the ascend
ant. Surely as the bride entered the red
chair the spirit bird would destroy her with
his powerful beak. But the wise Peachblossom
knew all these things and feared II will
60" she said; Il will fight and defeat him."
When the wedding morning came she gave di-
rections to have rice thrown out at the door,
which the spirit bird seeing made haste to de-
YOUR. and while his attention was thus occupied
Peachhlossom stepped into the bridal chair and
passed on her way unharmed. And now the in
eenuous reader knows why he throws rice after
the bride
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A Word About Saving.

Cassell's Family Magazine.
Again. do not be too kind to your relations. do
prudent. Before lending money to be used in their
business that the business is safe one; you may
have the fullest confidence in the honest intentions of
the borrower but that his capacity is to be
depended on. Many teachers give their savings to
help in the education of their brothers. Here, too
charity should be guided by prudence 1t is true
kindness to help stupid boy to University education;
is also bad for him be allowed take your savings
without any recompense. In most you had
better lend than give; the knowledge that he must
what he spends, out of his future earnings
will help to keep him from extravaganza And let all
such transactions be conducted business footing;
take receipts for money, and formal bonds for
repayment An affection that would think itself in
suited by being asked to observe such forms is
poor sort of thing.
Saving, we'll as investing, should be done in q
common-sense way. 1t is penny wise and pound
foolish to stint yourself in food firing Il have
known foreign teachers do this sometimes for the
sake of adding few pounds to your store. Live
far you in project health Your alth is part
of your capital and on its preservation depends your
power of supporting yourself at all. Do not consider
all recreation extravaganza; teachers often in
the matter of holiday, not giving themselves any real
rest change, and then wonder when they find
themselves losing their freshness and interest in their
k-deteriorating in value. in fact. Not only is
In dress. too you bound to keep yourself
tidy. if your employers pay you fair salary they
have right to expect to find you fit to be Too
much economy in this direction will only injure you.
Lastly, you may have opportunities of improving
yourself by going abroad for time. or by attending
classes at home. Do not lose such opportunities
from motives of economy they investments rather
than
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
LABOR INTERESTS.

The Schuylkili Miners Anxious for Strike,
but Their Wyoming Brethren Are Not.
WILKEsBARRE. Pa, Sept. 10.-Prominent
eaders of the Miners and Laborers' Association,
of Schuylkill county, came here last night in
disguise, and this morning visited all the col
leries with view of ascertsining the feeling of
the men in regard to a strike. Should the min
ers in the employ of the Philadelphia Sc Read
ing railroad, in Schuylkill county, decide to
strike. the men in this section would like to
help their brethren in the lower coal field, but
the lack of organization among the miners in
the Wyoming valley makes the rendering of as
sstance impossible. Consequently, there
be 10 general strike. This was the conclusion
arrived at by the delegates from Schuylkill,
and they returned to Pottsvile to night. where
they will lay the result of their mission before
the executive board DISTINGUISHED parties say
that the whole trouble will be settled in a few
days. While the Schuylkill region is hot for
big strike, the Wyoming valley is not.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.

Northwest Nj. e. Conference Raises the Re-
mainder of It's Share of the DePauw Fund.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENcAsTLE. Ind, Sept 10.-At the educa-
tional meeting at Collese-avenue Church, the
balance due the the DePauw education fund
from the Northwest Indiana Conference,
amounting to $l.700, raised. If the
Indiana and Southeast Indiana Con-
ference meet their obligations as
expected, $3.50, 900 will be added to the endow
ment fund at once.
After the usual routine business this morning
the following ministerial delegates were elected
to the General Conference: Rev. S. P. Colvin.
Laporte; Rev. r. D. Utter, Wea; Rev w. FL.
Hickman, Charlottesville; alternates-Rev. S.
Beck and j. w. Green.
DIR. Spencer. secretary of the Church Exren-
sion Society, addressed the conference to-nich hit.
The pulpits of the city will be filled to-
morrow by prominent ministers of the
conference. The bishop will announce the con-
ference appointments after the regular session
Monday morning after which the conference is
expected to adjourn.
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MARSHALL.

Mrs J. NJ. James has gone to Fountain City. Ind,
to visit her sister Mrs. VIM English. E. j. Hughes
and wife. DR.. S. Jumper, Jerry Claypool and wife,
Mrs Ed Garwood and Mrs. A. w. Kiigore went to
Chicago Thursday to spend several days Mrs. j.
E. Sau nderson, of Danvle, has been visiting her
parents, Daniel Lynn and wife, for several days.
Edward Snider and wife spent last week in Danville
with their daughter, Mrs A. N Morrow -. Mrs H.
q. Bell and children have returned from visit to
Hutsonville- Fenton Booth and Fred Bartlett have
gone Greencastle attend DePuaw University
Miss Title Roper of Louisville. KY. came last week
to spend few days with her sister, Mrs. g. b. Houk
- Mrs. Isaac Wilkin has been spending the past
week in Robinson with her daughter Mrs. Coulter.
Mrs. Phil Gress, of Chicago, has returned homo
from a months visit with Marshall relatives
Joseph Gunnip and wife are in Chicago for few
weeks soiourn- Miss Minnie Swern has gone to
Danville. Ind. to spend the winter.
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Wabaah.

Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin ZelI returned Thursday
from fo-tnight's stay at Cedar Beach Mrs
iunics Cochran left on Tuesday on a trip through
Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa Miss Mamie Craft IS
the guest of relatives at Osceola. Ia Mr. and Mrs
Lou H Fongeres and Mr.. and Mrs John II, Decker
returned on Wednesday from trip through the Lake
Superior country The Misses Dungeon, of Boswell
Ind. visiting Miss Annie Pay = Mr. and Mrs
Charles Finn returned Wednesday night from
Blooming Valley, Pa. Mrs. L. Taylor, of Vincennes
IS visiting relatives Whites Institute Miss Kate
Fggatt of Rchm ond. Ind. IS the guest of Miss Eva
EtiIf Mrs. Theodore Small. of Lincoln Neb is the
guest of relatives in this city County Auditor Ha
and Will Ditton of Garrett Ind, spent several
days with relatives the past week Mrs. Mary Gil
len has retuened from visit to her daughters at Ko
komo-William FL. Compton of Bronson, Mich,
In town this week visiting Albert Taylor and family
Mrs. Prosser. of Springfield, Mass has been the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. o. W. Lamport for week
past Mr. and Mrs J. FL McClung have returned
from visit to friends and relatives in Muncie and
Connersville- Martin Van Buren, up from Pa
drcah, Ky: Monday to spend few DAYS with
friends James A. Patton o Springfield. Kan +,
spent last week with Mr.. and Mrs. James Lynn.
Miss Jennie De vore, PRINCIPAL of the Oxford female
Seminary, the guest of Miss Bessie Keyes last
week.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
How to Get Acquainted with a Boy.

Boston Transcript.
It strikes the listener that the wise plan for
parent is to get acquainted with his bow very
thoroughly before he chooses a school for him.
There are good many parents who don't know
their boys at all Intimately. They may think
they do but they do not They only one
aspect of boys life, phase of his character.
Though they iuhabit the same house. par
emit lives in one world and the boy in another.
The boy cannot get up into the fathers world,
because it is strange and unknown to him. but
the father If he wants to, may get down into
the boys world. And if he does it,
what lot of things he begins to find out about
himi There is nothing like going fishing
with him, for instance, and putting the expedi-
ton under the boys command, to find out what
sort of fellow he is; not digging all the boys
bait for him, exactly, but participating with him
even in that Interesting part of the proceedin e.
and trampirg and waiting and soaking with him
on equal terms. His demeanor with fish at
the end of his line playing persistently but
coyly with the hook may afford you the very
clew to the boys character that you are after,
and save sleepless nights spent in trying to make
out what you shall do with him. You could not
get at the same information in a year of break
fast table intercourse with him. boys de-
meanor about boat is another excellent test
and refractory top spring will bring out great
deal of character. Don't try to get the boy up
to your own plane in order to get at him; let
yourself down to his 1t will not only
your purpose better but do you good at the same